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Submission + - NetBSD 5.0 released

Submitted by kl76 on Wednesday April 29, 2009 @06:58PM

kl76 writes: The NetBSD Project have announced the release of NetBSD 5.0 after two years of development. Highlights of the seven million new lines of code in 5.0 include a new threads implementation, kernel preemption, a new scheduler, POSIX real-time scheduling, message queues and asynchronous I/O, WAPBL metadata journaling for FFS filesystems, improved ACPI support, UDF write support, X.Org instead of XFree86 (on some platforms — at last!) and lots of driver updates. Binary distributions for 53 different platforms are provided.

Comment Re:interesting idea (Score 1) 398

by kl76 on Tuesday January 27, 2009 @11:40AM (#26622959) Attached to: We're In Danger of Losing Our Memories

Not to mention the fact that it's only really static content that archive.org can archive properly. From their FAQ:

How do you archive dynamic pages?
There are many different kinds of dynamic pages, some of which are easily stored in an archive and some of which fall apart completely. When a dynamic page renders standard html, the archive works beautifully. When a dynamic page contains forms, JavaScript, or other elements that require interaction with the originating host, the archive will not contain the original site's functionality.

Admittedly, archiving dynamic web content seems like a pretty intractable problem...

Comment Re:Where is AIX on x86? (Score 1) 366

by kl76 on Friday November 21, 2008 @12:41PM (#25846991) Attached to: AIX On the Desktop Is Getting the Boot

AIX/386 (aka AIX PS/2) had its last release in 1992. Even back then, I expect it it differed a lot from the contemporary AIX/6000 release (3.2?). I doubt it bears much resemblance to AIX 6.1 now...

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